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While I agree with this sentiment as far as the actual setting is concerned, the idea of an 'escape hatch' (or to a lesser extent, knowing where the 'exit' mod is) has zero to do with the setting. It has everything to do with the structure of an Organized Play Shared Campaign, which is based...

The "milquetoast middleground" you refer to is something suggested to help address the fact that some players may end up getting their characters stuck in there permanently through no fault of their own, because they are unable -- for whatever reasons -- to be able to participate in the session...

So it runs more like the hardbacks, or the Storylines-Formerly-Known-As-Encounters, with each module picking up right after last week's session in the same immediate continuity, so to speak? I definitely like that as an Encounter-esque thing if it were provided as a single concrete whole that...

This is true of any campaign, and in fact, of most any multi-player game, whether it be tabletop RPG, online MMO, or TCG. More than one of those has met its slow inevitable downfall by catering to the extremes of the bell curve, one end or the other.

Thanks. Also, while I'm at it, the "Adjusting the Encounter" sidebar on Page -- er, no page numbers, apparently -- well, the final encounter of Writhing in the Dark (3-13) is incomplete. Very Weak and Strong are both blank, and Weak cuts out mid-sentence. Do you know what the correct...

Great, thanks! Both are through February, correct?

Maybe it was corrected on one of the innumerable facebook pages out there or something, but if it was, I didn't see it. What are the reporting periods for 3-12 (Hillsfar Reclaimed) and 3-13 (Writhing in the Dark)? 3-12 says reports can be submitted through the end of February 2016, but...

That's the important line right there. Not hard if you're gaming with people you know and trust, but when it comes to completely random parties put together -- such as PUGs or, in tabletop terms, convention tables -- it's often not even worth bothering to risk it, because you never know who...

He's probably referring to the fact that all this (like the 'legal sources' discussion that went south elsewhere) has been brought up and discussed quite thoroughly previously... starting even back a little bit before we even definitively knew there was a Ravenloft in the works. Unfortunately i...

Probably the same reason why people tend not to play healers as often in MMOs -- everyone always expects you to heal them, no questions asked, immediately, regardless of what stupid thing they did, and if they die, it's obviously your fault anyway. :D

On the contrary, we have a very small pool of players to work with. We maybe have two players that can be there every Saturday, maybe another two that are usually able to make it, and then another three or four that are pretty much random based on their schedules. Any others, when they appear...

I'm sure I will make something, if someone decides to run them, but like Mirtek, Season 4 is likely to be a pass season for most of us due to the risk of taking an existing character into the storyline with such a small playerbase as our local area. That said, I'm not surprised with the large...

I fear you may have missed my concern, but no matter. We'll have to see how things develop in Season 5, as it looks like Season 4's going to be largely a hiatus season for our local store/gaming group compared to seasons prior.

Until we hear otherwise, our group is planning on just making characters explicitly for the individual Ravenloft offerings, and that's all -- they are essentially all throwaway characters until/if they get out, which is really going to be dependent on who we can get together for a table each...

I think Hoshisabi was trying to be polite everyone involved, as opposed to saying something like, "Okay, you've all said your piece, now shut the hell up and move on to the next subject." This thread has been filled with such vitriol this past week or so, I'm legitimately surprised it hasn't...

I that really a concern, tho? I mean, I cannot realistically forsee any situation where -- if you're running a convention that includes AL -- you'd ever turn down the offer of having someone from the staff attend and run stuff. For that matter, I cannot realistically forsee any situation where...

Which is why they are not relying on Wizards, because we know Wizards will end up going back on that the first time they feel they can make more money off of not bothering to stick with that, whether it be an intentional decision, or unintentionally just by not playtesting/editing as throughly...

I agree, content for all is the optimal bit. But some things just can't be 'for all,' for various reasons. And the staff is doing what they can with WotC, etc., to make stuff available to as many people as possible. But sometimes things have to go the long route, and they can't just open...

With all due respect Aarduini, and in all seriousness: have you actually run an Epic before, be it Living Greyhawk, AL, etc.? Because they are in fact very much not simple to run. The entire point of an Epic scenario is that it is intended to be a large-scale adventure, with numerous table...

Are any of these actually detailed anywhere as being the results of the summaries? I ask, because I've not seen anything along those lines. Sure, we get some season recaps here and there, and some veiled references to previous mods are seen in some mods, but in most of those I've seen so far...